Page 226 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

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The mitochondria consisting of protein inside the cell produce the
energy needed by the cell. In these plants, chemical energy obtained
from foodstuffs is converted into energy packets known as ATPs which
the cell can use. All the events permitting life inside the cell take place
thanks to these ready-to-use energy packets. In addition to being pre-
sent in the cell nucleus, DNA is also found in these energy-producing
mitochondria.
Mitochondria contain mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).
Evolutionists interpret the inherited variation in mitochondrial DNA as
a form of evolution and combine that hypothesis with another which
they refer to as the "molecular clock." This hypothesis, launched in
1965, suggested that regular changes would take place in the nucleotide
and protein sequences. On that basis, it was further assumed that liv-
ing things could be analyzed in terms of mtDNA changes to determine
at what time they separated from a common ancestor.
However, it is unclear what kind of clock mechanism in mtDNA
can bring about regular changes in living things. Fossilized bones can-
not harbor DNA molecules, since these decay very quickly. Therefore,
there can be no question on investigating natural history on the basis of
the DNA molecule. These analyses are evolutionists' efforts to force the
history of life to square with their own hypotheses.
Based on that preconception, evolutionists tried to establish when
and where the human family tree began. Since the widest variety of mi-
tochondrial DNA was observed in Africans, they decided that these
must be the oldest "branch" of family tree and claimed that all human
races living today were descended from a woman who lived in Africa
130,000 years ago, and that she had appeared by way of evolution as
the first representative of Homo sapiens.